Melvin Lax
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It is catalogued under topics including 1922 births, 2002 deaths and 20th-century American physicists.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melvin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Summit
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Syracuse University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Willis E. Lamb Award
- Doctoral student
- Joan Feynman
- Field of work
- stochastic process
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- date of death
- 2002-12-08
- date of birth
- 1922-03-08
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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1922 births2002 deaths20th-century American physicistsCity College of New York facultyFellows of Optica (society)Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellows of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceFellows of the American Physical SocietyMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumniMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNew York University alumniPeople from Summit, New JerseyScientists at Bell LabsSyracuse University faculty